All of my coaching can be taken in both English and German, depending on your preferance!
My philosophy
As a presentation coach, my mission is to help you present your topic in a way that is
- understandable without compromising the truth
- engaging yet accurate
- leaves your audience with the feeling of joy that stems from understanding something new.
Let me give you an example
- Level 1: everything you see is made up of so-called particles. The smaller of which have a charge called “color”, they are either red green or blue. These are not the same as ordinary colours like we see everyday, it’s just that the physicists at the time couldn’t come up with a better name for this charge at the time. You can think of color charge as similar to electric charge, except that for two types of charges (positive and negative) there are three types (red, green and blue). Color confinement says that these color charges don’t occur by themselves, so you can never see just a green or a red particle, but you only see all three of them together. But you’re already familiar with something that works similarly: magnets! When you cut a magnet in half, you don’t get a south pole and a north pole, you just get two magnets, each with a south and a north pole.
- Level 2: certain fundamental particles carry a charge called color charge, which comes in three types, red green and blue. What color confinement says is that we cannot observe a particle carrying such a color charge in isolation, but that a red, green and blue particle are always bound together to form a larger compound particle. This works similarly to magnetic charge where we don’t observe magnetic monopoles in nature.
- Level 3: quarks and gluons obey SU(3) symmetry by virtue of carrying color charge. Color confinement says that these particles always combine into a singlet representation with respect to SU(3).
"Which Coaching methods do you use, judy?"
I believe that people learn best by working on their presentation themselves, rather than me telling them what to do. Therefore, in 1-on-1 coaching as well as group workshops, I provide exercises and homework items for you to do yourself in order to help you learn the skills and develop the thought patterns needed to put together a great presentation that is educational, informative and yet engaging and entertaining. So be ready to get your hands dirty, but rest assured that I am there to guide and assist you along the way!
Furthermore, I have found Jung-Myers personality theory to be invaluable in this area. It is helpful to both understand you as a presenter, as well as help you understand how other people perceive and learn information. You might be surprised how differently people learn! Because of that, I offer MBTI profiling to help you settle on your Myers-Briggs type, and so that we have a strong basis to use Jung-Myers personality theory in your journey to become a great presenter. Interested? Learn more about MBTI profiling here:
1-on-1 coaching
The most important thing for me is to help you present your topic in the way that is best for YOU and YOUR TOPIC. This means that we work together to construct a coaching plan that is suitable to you and your particular needs. In practice, this works as such:
Before we begin coaching, you and I will have an initial call where I learn about you, your goals, and the areas you’d like to improve on. Based on this call, I will suggest a coaching plan targeting the various areas we identified in the initial call. Then, if you agree, we begin the coaching. The exact spacing of the coaching sessions is flexible and can be catered to your needs, but I recommend individual sessions to be spaced 1-2 weeks apart. Furthermore, it is always possible to adapt the coaching plan as we learn more about your goals and needs. After all, I want you to get the most out of our time together!
As already mentioned, I firmly believe you learn best by practical application. Therefore, when we are ready to begin our coaching journey, I will ask you to pick a topic for a presentation that you will put together in the course of the coaching. This might be a topic you’ve presented in the past but feel you could do a better job with it, or something you want to present in the future, the choice is yours. I do, however, recommend that you choose a topic that is representative of the topics you want to learn to present in the future. During our coaching together, I will give you practical tips and exercises, as well as homework for you to complete between sessions. If you engage in these exercises, then, by the time our coaching ends, you will have not only a finished presentation to give whenever you choose, but you will have also learned the skills to put together great presentations by yourself in the future!
1-on-1 COACHING
What this entails:
- 1 free initial goal-setting call (about 30 minutes)
- individualised coaching sessions (45 minutes each) based on your needs
- practical exercises and examples
- coaching plan can be adapted at any time
Price: 150€ per session
Group workshops
In addition to individual training, I offer group workshops what are best taken in groups of approximately 15 participants. I believe that learning happens through discovery and doing, so these workshops are packed with interactive exercises and brainstorming sessions, wherein participants learn various aspects of presentation giving through hands on experiences.
My suite of currently offered workshops can be found below under “Standard workshops”. In addition, I offer you the chance to get aw custom workshop uniquely tailored to you. Interested? Find out more under “Build your own workshop”.
Standard workshops
I currently offer the following standard workshops. The prices given below are for the whole group (i.e. not per participant). Ideally, these workshops are designed for approximately 15 participants, but this number is somewhat flexible.
2 WAYS OF TELLING A COMPLEX STORY (Full day workshop)
What this entails:
- explanation of two styles of constructing a complex topic as a story: the utilitarian-style and the mystery-style
- practical examples from my own presentations exhibiting these two styles
- interactive exploration of the advantages and goals of each of these two styles
- discussion on when to use which style (suitable topics, audience, etc.)
- participants themselves create an introduction and skeleton of a presentation in each of these styles on a topic of their choice
- take home material summarising the key points of the workshop
Price: 1500€
4 STYLES OF GATHERING INFORMATION (Full day workshop)
What this entails:
- explanation of the 4 styles of gathering information (based on Carl Jung’s work on the “perceiving functions”)
- participants find their own preferred style of gathering information through interactive exercises
- participants work in groups to put together and hold a short presentation uniquely catered to a particular style (1 style per group)
- interactive discussion comparing and contrasting the methods used to speak to a particular style and how to combine them
- tips on how to use these methods in practice
- take home material summarising the key points of the workshop
Price: 1500€
Build your own workshop
Do you have a particular goal in mind, but you just can’t find the workshop that fulfills it? Do none of the workshops you’ve found suit your time needs? Or do all the workshops you have found on a specific topic include a whole bunch of extra modules that you know won’t be beneficial to you and your context? Then talk to me and let’s come up with a workshop that is uniquely tailored to your needs!
In our initial call, we will determine together what your particular needs and goals are. In consideration of my skills and areas of expertise, we will then, together, decide on core elements of the workshop. It is important to me that you get what you need, but also that I only offer what I can actually do, otherwise this workshop won’t be helpful to you. Just contact me, and I am sure we can make a workshop happen that is tailored to you while still exclusively containing quality content!
BUILD YOUR OWN WORKSHOP
What this entails:
- 1 free initial goal-setting call (about 60 minutes), where we discuss what you need and what I can deliver. I will also give you an estimate of the preparation time I need.
- a workshop that is uniquely tailored to your needs, based on the aims we identified in the initial call
Price: 750€ (half day) or per session 1500€ (full day) + preparation time (80€ per hour)